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You ve all read Linda Harden s old 90s UseNet post The Physics of Santa Claus , ending in the phrase : In conclusion - If Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve, he s dead now. Well, here s picture evidence.

Mistigram: for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar,

littlebitspace drew a magnificent and chilling #blockASCII portrait of the late Jolly Old St. Nick, apparently reduced to nowt but bones and beard following his magical night's impossible exertions.

Mistigram:

thegreenherring drew this #ANSIart scene of #RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer's big moment for this date on last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.
A valiant underdog reindeer with a glowing red nose leads a train of flying ruminants through the foggy night sky.

A valiant underdog reindeer with a glowing red nose leads a train of flying ruminants through the foggy night sky.

A pale woman with big dark hair, pendulous white hoop earrings and a small mouth framed by red lips gazes toward the viewer.

Mistigram: you can communicate a lot of winter vibes with a cold palette of whites and greys, with maybe a splash of red for an accent. The green you can take or leave.

nitron drew this #ANSIart screen for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

A pine tree grows in a sunnny Alpine meadow while the sky and mountain peaks behind it contrast with dramatic colours.

Mistigram:

grymmjack drew this pleasantly hyper-saturated #ANSIart Alpine scene of a pine tree growing in a snowy meadow, intended to be shared on this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

Extreme close-up view of snowflakes in a blizzard allows us to observe that a tiny human skull sits at the precise centre of each one of them.

Mistigram: with aid of a microscope,

littlebitspace conducted some #blockASCII research investigating just why snowflakes are so cold in this screen from today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar. His report back: be very glad they are not warm.

An ice-encrusted A-frame emerges from a snow-covered mountain landscape, inviting customers and competitors in to the Ski Shop.

Mistigram: For this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar,

consolejockey drew an #ANSIart screen of Rodney Recloose's Ski Shop from Electronic Arts' 1990 minigame compilation #SkiOrDie.

A furry curmudgeon, all slimy smiles and pointy eyebrows and slitted yellow eyes, comes up with an idea so vile it makes his own green hair curl to its tip.

Mistigram: 'Then he got an idea. An awful idea. #TheGrinch had a wonderful, awful idea.' LDA drew this incredible #ANSIart screen from #ChuckJones' 1966 animated adaptation of #DrSeuss' 1957 book #HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

The Grim Reaper moonlights one night a year for Santa Claus, and sometimes the jolly old elf returns the favour.

Mistigram:

littlebitspace drew this wickedly grim #ANSIart screen for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

With the sky erupting in aurora borealis colours, a furry green anthropomorphic rabbit tiptoes through the moonlit snow, wearing Santa s hat, beard, belt and boots and carrying his sack full of toys and a candy cane-striped gun.

Mistigram: #EpicMegagames' heavily-armed green lagomorph #JazzJackrabbit was drawn in #ANSIart by

grymmjack, as he appeared in his seasonal 1995 #HolidayHare bonus disk, to appear on this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

It s cold and snowing outside, but the cat is curled up inside on the warm windowsill. Across the sill from it sits a fleshless human skull, defying the viewer to inquire after its backstory. (It can t answer, it s dead! The cat may know something, but it s not talking.)

Mistigram:

littlebitspace drew this cozy-but-not-relaxing #monochrome #blockASCII screen of an indoor view through a crowded window on a snowy day for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar. The house rule is: don't rub the cat's tummy.

Mistigram: For today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar,

littlebitspace drew a tiny 1-bit #textmode #pixelart design writ large in #blockASCII, of what appears to be a fool, jester or joker in the Mistigris poker vein previously explored.

A very stylized rendition of a figure in half-dark, half-light garments, wearing a two-pointed hat and leaning on a staff.

A very stylized rendition of a figure in half-dark, half-light garments, wearing a two-pointed hat and leaning on a staff.

An abominable snowman roars, brandishing its claws in a futile gesture of frustration, upon observing that the skiier they were chasing and intending to consume has wiped out and buried himself in a snowbank.

Mistigram: for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, Cthulu manually made an #ANSIart reproduction of #pixelart sprites from Chris Pirih's #SkiFree, first included in 1991's Microsoft Entertainment Pack 3.

A skeletal pair of hands holds three unusual playing cards uneasily, two jokers in the left (the furthest looking oddly Lovecraftian) and the right holding a 13 of deer skulls with the glowing nose.

Mistigram: On yesterday's unlucky date for our ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar,

littlebitspace drew this extraordinary (boney) hand of playing cards, including two jokers (perhaps they are playing a variation of poker in which they are wild?) and an oddly familiar red-nosed deer skull.

A cozy log cabin appearing tiny against a snowy forest landscape must be warm inside, judging by the amount of smoke puffing merrily out of its chimney.

Mistigram:

codefenix drew this cozy #ANSIart scene for today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar. If you like it, you can see more such ANSI screens from this year's ADVENT24 at his Constructive Chaos BBS via conchaos.synchro.net

A smiling snowman shares a frozen hill with five arctic hares foraging for greenery beneath the snow.

Mistigram:

thegreenherring drew this totally lagomorphic wintery #ANSIart scene for this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

A candy cane-striped numeral 9 stands out in the middle of a snowstorm.

Mistigram: this peppermint-striped number 9 was drawn in #ANSIart by Pinky as part of last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

During a nighttime snowfall, next to the number 8, two skeletal figures in toques or party hats comisserate with a third skeleton sitting between them.

Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart screen of a trio of skeletons navigating the darkest time of year together was drawn by

littlebitspace for last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar.

A blue-skinned Yeti carefully places a golden star on top of a tiny Christmas tree.

Mistigram: For this date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar,

grymmjack drew an #ANSIart portrait of 'Bumble', the Abominable Snowmonster of the North, from 1964's Rankin/Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special.

Behind a stand of snow-covered fir trees flies a giant Finnish flag.

Mistigram: the northerly home country of

littlebitspace, the #ANSIart illustrator of today's date in last year's ADVENT23 #AdventCalendar, also lays claim to Santa Claus. But if you don't know your flags, you may not be able to see the forest for the trees.

A fuzzy fox pauses in its winter rounds of the snow-covered evergreen fronds to peer out at the viewer and size up whether we are tasty or a threat.

Mistigram: This sly character, drawn by LDA, appeared in last year's ADVENT23 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar on this date. This year we have released another one, but you need to visit its program every day (under MS-DOS, on a BBS, or via https://16colo.rs/pack/advent24/ADVENT.EXE) to see the new screens.

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